Hello loyal blog readers. Imagine how stressful it is right now for the people who are planning the upcoming intellectual property meetings. INTA had planned its 2020 INTA Annual Meeting for Singapore, and canceled it, saying that it will schedule instead an annual meeting at some not-yet-selected city in the US, in May or June of 2020. I gather that AIPLA is trying to figure out whether or not to keep in place its AIPLA Stated Spring Meeting presently scheduled for May 6-8 in San Antonio, Texas. I have no doubt that the planners of the 2020 USPTO Design Day, scheduled for April 23 in Alexandria, Virginia, are wondering about all of this. I imagine that the planners of the ABA-IPL 2020 Annual Meeting, scheduled for April 1-3 in Washington, DC are also wondering about all of this.
The planners for those four meetings probably do not feel very comfortable trying to ask their potential attendees what their plans are. But I can ask questions that they might not feel comfortable asking. So I will. And I will aggregate the responses and provide them to the planners of the four meetings.
Did you attend any of these four meetings in the past three years? Are you thinking about attending one or more of these four upcoming meetings? If so, please please please answer this short questionnaire and please do so by tomorrow, Wednesday, March 11. It should only take two or three minutes and your answers might be a big help for the planners of these four meetings. The questionnaire does not ask for your name or email address. I will pass along the responses only in aggregated form.
Thank you.
Carl Oppedahl
I was planning to go to the AIPLA meeting in San Antonio in May. However, since SXSW (March 2020 in Austin) was canceled, I probably will not attend AIPLA in San Antonio. I’ll probably just wait for AIPLA in DC in October.